EP1677956A1 - Method for cutting veneer from logs - Google Patents
Method for cutting veneer from logsInfo
- Publication number
- EP1677956A1 EP1677956A1 EP04767154A EP04767154A EP1677956A1 EP 1677956 A1 EP1677956 A1 EP 1677956A1 EP 04767154 A EP04767154 A EP 04767154A EP 04767154 A EP04767154 A EP 04767154A EP 1677956 A1 EP1677956 A1 EP 1677956A1
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- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- peeling
- log
- knife
- veneer
- nose bar
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27L—REMOVING BARK OR VESTIGES OF BRANCHES; SPLITTING WOOD; MANUFACTURE OF VENEER, WOODEN STICKS, WOOD SHAVINGS, WOOD FIBRES OR WOOD POWDER
- B27L5/00—Manufacture of veneer ; Preparatory processing therefor
- B27L5/02—Cutting strips from a rotating trunk or piece; Veneer lathes
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27L—REMOVING BARK OR VESTIGES OF BRANCHES; SPLITTING WOOD; MANUFACTURE OF VENEER, WOODEN STICKS, WOOD SHAVINGS, WOOD FIBRES OR WOOD POWDER
- B27L5/00—Manufacture of veneer ; Preparatory processing therefor
- B27L5/02—Cutting strips from a rotating trunk or piece; Veneer lathes
- B27L5/025—Nose-bars; Back-up rolls
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23Q—DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT
- B23Q15/00—Automatic control or regulation of feed movement, cutting velocity or position of tool or work
- B23Q15/20—Automatic control or regulation of feed movement, cutting velocity or position of tool or work before or after the tool acts upon the workpiece
- B23Q15/22—Control or regulation of position of tool or workpiece
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
- G01B11/00—Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of optical techniques
- G01B11/02—Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of optical techniques for measuring length, width or thickness
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
- G01B11/00—Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of optical techniques
- G01B11/24—Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of optical techniques for measuring contours or curvatures
Definitions
- the present invention concerns a method for cutting or more precisely for peeling veneer from a wood log.
- the initial stage and the main stage of the peeling are traditional.
- the log rotated on the spindles is rounded up in the initial stage by means of a so-called open knife setting, the nose bar of the lathe being in this stage in open-position, not in contact with the log.
- the nose bar is lowered to its operation position, in other words pressing the surface of the log slightly at a small distance in front of the peeling knife.
- the distance between the nose bar and the peeling knife, the so called knife gap is chosen in accordance with the thickness of the veneer to be cut so, that the knife gap is slightly smaller than the nominal thickness of the veneer.
- the veneer is thereby cut under a light pressure caused by the nose bar.
- the pressure is determined according to the wood to be peeled and according to its condition.
- the knife peeling the veneer and the nose bar travelling with it are moved, supported by a knife carriage of the lathe, corresponding to the proceeding of the peeling towards the log.
- the proceeding speed is naturally dependent on the thickness of the veneer to be cut, on the diameter of the log and on the speed of rotation thereof.
- the adjusted motion of the knife carriage is effected in general by an adjustable electric motor, suitable thereto being among others a dc-motor.
- the peeling is performed under the above mentioned circumstances up to a certain remaining thickness of the log, in other words to the core thickness, which is determined by different factors, such as the tendency of the log to bend when getting thinner, tendency of the veneer to brake when the log is getting thinner, etc.
- the ending of the peeling when operating according to the methods of prior art is performed so that when the peeling knife has proceeded to a predetermined distance to the rotation axis of the peeled log, the proceeding of knife towards the log is stopped.
- the stopping is performed retarded, by braking the proceeding of the knife carriage, for instance by braking the drive motor.
- the cutting ends naturally before the zero-situation to the breakage of the veneer.
- the nose bar loosens from the contact with the veneer surface, because its distance is adjusted according to the nominal thickness of the veneer.
- the peeling is in practice performed by means of an open knife setting, which causes certain disadvantages.
- the surface of the veneer will be rough, as the knife tends to bite more of the log core, because the counter pressure of the nose bar is missing, which also leads to a prolonged ending stage of the peeling, and the veneer web does not break off properly at the ending stage of the peeling.
- Figure 1 shows the traditional veneer peeling as a general view
- Figure 2 shows as a schematic drawing the ending stage of the peeling in accordance with the present invention
- Figure 3 is a time diagram of partial factors of the peeling process in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 1 shows a principal cross sectional view of a conventional veneer lathe during the peeling process.
- the log 2 to be peeled is at its both ends supported by the spindles 1 and rotated by them.
- the knife cutting veneer tangentially from the surface of the log as well as the nose bar abutting the log in the peeling process on the surface of the log are supported by their own knife holders (6, respectively 7), said holders being fixed to the ends 8 in a way known in the art and forming together with them a knife set carriage of the lathe.
- the knife set carriage, and respectively the knives 3, 5 supported by it are fed during the peeling towards the log adjusted so that the thickness of the veneer 4 remains at its adjusted value.
- the feeding speed depends among others on the rotation speed of the spindles 1 and the thickness of the veneer to be cut.
- the controlled speed is provided for instance by means of an adjustable drive motor, for instance with a dc- motor.
- the peeling When the peeling has proceeded to a predetermined log thickness, the peeling will be stopped by giving a halt instruction to the transferring devices.
- the proceeding of the massive knife carriage it not stopped immediately at the moment of the halt instruction, but it as well as the knife set assembly supported by it tends to proceed forced by the stored motion energy towards the peeled log.
- This proceeding is counteracted by the load caused by the peeling, but in order to make the stopping stage to be better controllable, also a braking command is usually included in the stopping command of the drive motor. With these measures, it is tried to stop the proceeding of the knife carriage during about one rotation of the log.
- the ending stage of the peeling will be performed about during two rotations of the log.
- the knife 3 still cuts from the surface of the block veneer, which will become thinner from the nominal thickness to zero, following the stopping phase of the knife carriage.
- the nose bar looses its contact with the surface of the log about at the moment (with a lag determined by the grade of pressing), when the thickness of the peeled veneer goes under the nominal thickness, that is, the open knife peeling stage has been reached with the problems mentioned above.
- the duration of this ending stage is dependent among others on the operating speed of the lathe.
- the ending stage of the peeling is performed so that the distance between the knife 3 and the nose bar 5, in other words the knife gap is decreased in accordance with the thickness of the veneer being cut at a certain moment.
- the nose bar 5 is in contact with the surface of the log until the end of the peeling and gives a counter force to the knife
- the knife gap is decreased during the ending stage of peeling taking into account the pressing degree from the nominal thickness in principle up to zero (in practice nearly to zero because the webb is broken before the zero).
- the control of the decreasing of the knife gap up to zero in the ending stage of peeling can be performed with a reasonable accuracy by an estimation, based on the data received from the control of the drive of the transfer device of the knife set carriage.
- a decisive moment for the control of the knife gap is the moment, when the drive gets the halt instruction of the ending stage.
- the information on the braking command included in the halt instruction is significant for evaluating, during how many rotations of log the peeling is finished.
- the knife still peels normal veneer with its nominal thickness from the log.
- the knife set carriage proceeds towards the log with a speed defined by the nominal veneer thickness, the gap between the knife and the nose bar corresponds the nominal thickness of the veneer (for the pressure degree smaller), the spindles rotating the log are in the state of log-rotating.
- the devices that affect the feeding motion of the knife set carriage receive a halt instruction.
- the proceeding of the knife set carriage is also tried to slow down so that the proceeding motion would stop about during one revolution of the log.
- the stopping point of the knife set carriage with respect to the peeled log determines the limit of the core and defines the log diameter at the end of the peeling, during about one additional revolution of the log.
- the return motion of the knife carriage is started for a new peeling operation.
- the knife gap is in this point still closed and the spindles holding the veneer core are still in holding position.
- the spindles are opened at a suitable point of the return motion of the knife set carriage for dropping the core from the lathe.
- the nose bar is opened at a suitable point out of its operation position and held in this open-position until the end of the round-up stage of the new log.
- the invention is applicable also in a different way from the above described, using an accelerated formula.
- the accelerated operation can be used as well for the part of the speed reduction of the knife set carriage as for the part of the round-up stage from the stopping of the knife set carriage on.
- the proceeding of the knife set carriage after the halt instruction can be retarded more strongly, less than during one revolution of the log, with slow lathes even without delay, whereby the ending stage takes place about during one revolution.
- the knife gap can be reduced more quickly at the ending stage than what is required by the reduction of the veneer thickness, in other words the pressing degree can be increased at the ending stage of peeling, whereby the veneer is cut off before the end of the round-up revolution of the log.
- the core will not be round, but the cut-off of the veneer at the end is better controlled.
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- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
- Manufacturing & Machinery (AREA)
- Wood Science & Technology (AREA)
- Forests & Forestry (AREA)
- Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
- Manufacture Of Wood Veneers (AREA)
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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FI20031391A FI122645B (en) | 2003-09-26 | 2003-09-26 | A method for turning veneer from feldspar |
PCT/FI2004/050134 WO2005030448A1 (en) | 2003-09-26 | 2004-09-22 | Method for cutting veneer from logs |
Publications (2)
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EP1677956A1 true EP1677956A1 (en) | 2006-07-12 |
EP1677956B1 EP1677956B1 (en) | 2010-11-10 |
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US (1) | US7779875B2 (en) |
EP (1) | EP1677956B1 (en) |
CA (1) | CA2537893C (en) |
FI (1) | FI122645B (en) |
WO (1) | WO2005030448A1 (en) |
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US4506714A (en) | 1983-04-22 | 1985-03-26 | Sun Studs, Inc. | Veneer lathe |
US4708180A (en) | 1984-08-07 | 1987-11-24 | The Coe Manufacturing Company | Large diameter nose bar roll apparatus for veneer lathe with automatic knife gap adjustment during peeling |
US4791970A (en) | 1987-12-07 | 1988-12-20 | Walser Donald C | Veneer lathes having veneer thickness sensor and thickness control |
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- 2003-09-26 FI FI20031391A patent/FI122645B/en not_active IP Right Cessation
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- 2004-09-22 WO PCT/FI2004/050134 patent/WO2005030448A1/en active Application Filing
- 2004-09-22 US US10/572,393 patent/US7779875B2/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 2004-09-22 EP EP04767154A patent/EP1677956B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 2004-09-22 CA CA2537893A patent/CA2537893C/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
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WO2005030448A1 (en) | 2005-04-07 |
FI122645B (en) | 2012-04-30 |
CA2537893A1 (en) | 2005-04-07 |
FI20031391A (en) | 2005-03-27 |
EP1677956B1 (en) | 2010-11-10 |
US7779875B2 (en) | 2010-08-24 |
FI20031391A0 (en) | 2003-09-26 |
CA2537893C (en) | 2012-05-08 |
US20060266433A1 (en) | 2006-11-30 |
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